The Southern Travel Blog

The Southern Girl Travel Guide to Sandals Royal Plantation!

You probably know by now that we’re big fans of the Sandals family of resorts across the Caribbean.

You can read about the ultimate all-inclusive resorts in our on-going series of Southern Girl Travel Guides to Sandals! including guides to:

Beaches Negril
Sandals Negril
Sandals Montego Bay
Sandal Royal Caribbean
Sandals Carlyle (now known as the Sandals Inn)

with more to come.

Royal Plantation just after sunset

While we love providing you with information on Sandals resorts, we love it even more when we have the opportunity to visit ourselves. Not long ago we had the chance to have a vacation of our own at what’s become our new favorite Sandals Resort:

Sandals Royal Plantation!

Royal Plantation is one of the smallest and most exclusive of all the Sandals resorts. [Read more…]

Epcot’s Japan Pavilion: Thoughts and Links!

By Mark

Epcot’s Japan Pavilion is one of our favorite spots at Walt Disney World.

It’s a beautifully designed, peaceful area with great vistas, wonderful food, and some of the most attentive cast members at Disney.

A meal in the Japan Pavilion even became the highlight of our very first Disney Date Night, on our first trip to Walt Disney World as a family.

The Japan Pavilion is also one of the best spots at Epcot to catch the Illuminations fireworks show! [Read more…]

A Day to Forgive All Sins

By Mark

Along Taylor’s Creek in Beaufort, North Carolina

It’s mid-December here in North Carolina: 72 degrees and sunny – beautiful blue skies, and we just put up our Christmas tree.

Something’s slightly amiss, but we’re not complaining.

Today’s weather is one of those strange particulars of places like North Carolina – it can be freezing one day in the late fall or winter, and sunny and 70 degrees the next. [Read more…]

Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2016!

By Mark

For the first time in three years, we are missing one of our favorite times at Walt Disney World…Epcot’s International Food & Wine Festival.

We did have a great Disney experience this fall, but it was a little different and we’ll report on it soon, but first a roundup of information on Food & Wine 2016! [Read more…]

Thinking About Jamaica…

By Mark

Sunrise, Ocho Rios, Jamaica

Since we started working with Sandals about 4 years ago, we’ve had the opportunity to visit Jamaica at least annually.

With each visit, we’ve enjoyed Jamaica more and more, she’s become increasingly familiar, and we’ve come to care about the country and her people. [Read more…]

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